Does ITV have a London bias, or what?

[Kinoulton]

I've never joined in the bashing of the BBC, or Sky, or even Stuart Barnes, and fail to see the supposed unfairness towards Tigers.

But I was genuinely suprised watching ITV's programme on Sunday night as to how openly London-centric the entire ITV team are.

Tigers performace was described as "stodgy". Well it was a pretty stodgy pitch, so to get 29 points against decent opposition was not bad.

The commentator for the Irish v Sale game was so biased that he went mad every time Irish scored, kept relatively quiet when Sale scored, and most incredibly, when Irish scored a try to put the game back in the balance he said "Let's hope the conversion goes over".

Even the Sarries v Bath game, by no means a north v south affair, clearly had ITV boys wanting a Sarries win.

[sapajo]

Yes they do and it is mini hysteria enjendered by the comparative recent and short term success of certain London based clubs. Success is transitory but only greatness is permanent. Tigers are a truly great rugby club whose prowess, success and achievements continue to be legion.

[Old Hob]

Tigers performance WAS stodgy. We made it twice as difficult as it needed to be, the kicking especially by Youngs was poor and we missed a simple defensive move to gift them a try and we missed two tries of our own. Many of the print journos commented on how annoyed and frustrated the crowd were getting so this opinion is not just mine. But, yes the media are London centric in everything they do.

[adamv6]

I noticed it was really prevalent during the RWC (please please please don't let ITV had the 2015 tournament).

Dayglo spend 3 minutes waxing on about James Haskell, the most dynamic ball carrier in the England squad when he had carried twice in 45mins!

At least the presenters are fairly open minded, if the commentators are not.

[bluntiger]

Dayglo spend 3 minutes waxing on about James Haskell, the most dynamic ball carrier in the England squad when he had carried twice in 45mins!

That is not London bias but it is a clear conflict of interest. Dayglo (as far as I am aware) is still on the Wasps board and is/was responsible for player recruitment and contracts so he uses his media opportunities to play up Wasps' players or compliment players they are looking to attract (or attract back, in Haskell's case).

[exiledandy]

what

[jgriffin]

I don't know why you complain, just accept that lazy journos latch onto the fashionable names and know sweet-:censored:-adams about a lot of others. Right now they cannot stop repeating 'Owen Farrell' - and if Lancaster is stupid enough to build a side around this over-rated love-child, then that's Lancaster's long suicide note. Homer has more talent, let alone Burns, 12T and several others.

[BJ.]

It amuses me how a certain TV company constantly refers to a particular French club as 'Jonny Wilkinson's Toulon' as if the only way we would have heard of them was by the fact he plays for them. The trouble is this TV company, which would broadcast nothing but football 25/8 if it had the chance, treats its viewers as if they have the mentality of a Millwall supporter.

[jgriffin]

I don't know why you complain, just accept that lazy journos latch onto the fashionable names and know sweet-:censored:-adams about a lot of others. Right now they cannot stop repeating 'Owen Farrell' - and if Lancaster is stupid enough to build a side around this over-rated love-child, then that's Lancaster's long suicide note. Homer has more talent, let alone Burns, 12T and several others.

Sigh...........

[Kinoulton]

Is the censor banning the term F.....A.... because it stands for something or because it has an association with football?

[BJ.]

Is the censor banning the term F.....A.... because it stands for something or because it has an association with football?

It appears the filter does not like the diminutive form of Frances or something resembling a fan.

[jgriffin]

Is the censor banning the term F.....A.... because it stands for something or because it has an association with football?

It appears the filter does not like the diminutive form of Frances or something resembling a fan.

So are all things of beauty (Frances or diminutive) excised from this puritan universe. (sigh)

[Rizzo]

The word as described by BJ above as a diminutive of Frances is obviously in the filter list, initials for football association as not as far as I know. The problem is that one or two users persist in including certain words in the profane or swearing context, despite being asked to stop, and thus certain words remain in the filter list.

[Kinoulton]

The problem is that the filter does not like the word for something that opens a door, a man who throws a caber, and a small bird that may be blue or coal.

I respect the filter operators for protecting our delicate ears, but even on the channel we're discussing here (ITV) our ears receive a constant stream of proper, albeit mild-ish, swear words up until 9 p.m. and then after 9 pm everyone is free to use words commencing with C, F and W.

Now I don't like these words being used in the wrong context, and I certainly wouldn't want to see them appear here, but every day objects whose words happen to coincide with certain terms of abuse are still part of the OED and our language, even if the "Computer says 'no'".